Engaging Community Language Learners - Engaging today’s young language learners. Prof Phil Benson скачать в хорошем качестве

Engaging Community Language Learners - Engaging today’s young language learners. Prof Phil Benson

Session 1 - Engaging today’s young language learners. Prof Phil Benson. It is often observed that today’s young learners are active and curious and often impatient with traditional ways of teaching and learning. This workshop will introduce some principles and practical strategies, based on the idea of autonomous learning, for teaching languages to youngsters who prefer doing to learning. The workshop will explore how to design tasks that encourage young learners’ ability, desire and freedom to learn languages, make learning more relevant to their personal interests, and lead to a sense of ownership over the language they have learned. Participant will take away 10 easy-to-employ pedagogical strategies to encourage more autonomous learning. Phil Benson is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Multilingualism Research Centre at MQU. He is an expert in language teaching methodologies, especially autonomous learning outside the classroom. He has published 12 books and more than 80 articles on language teaching topics.